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Hunger stalks millions of poor Americans
Financial Times ^ | 4/24/08 | Chris Bryant

Posted on 04/24/2008 7:35:25 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim

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1 posted on 04/24/2008 7:35:25 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim
holy smokes.

I guess the name of the game is, "if it didn't happen, make it up!"

2 posted on 04/24/2008 7:37:28 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (media is now a double-edged sword; it's no longer a billy-club in the hands of the big goons.)
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Hunger stalks millions of poor Americans

Hunger may be stalking, but it's not doing a very good job of catching them, though.

3 posted on 04/24/2008 7:39:18 PM PDT by Defiant (McCain's big vein drains mainly from his brain.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Most of the people I see at the grocery stores paying with “food stamps” have a shopping cart at least half full of junk food.


4 posted on 04/24/2008 7:40:21 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Hunger stalks millions of poor Americans

I wish to Heaven it did. Maybe then they'd waddle across the street pushing the baby strollers just a little bit faster.

Owl_Eagle

”You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being”

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

5 posted on 04/24/2008 7:40:32 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Bullsh*t. Free lunches, free breakfasts, soup kitchens, churches. There’s always a free meal out there. Unfortunately, most look toward the gubmint for it. Used to be the case that your family helped you out. Now, liberals and moderates are your family.


6 posted on 04/24/2008 7:41:20 PM PDT by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: Defiant

An many of my above mentioned people look like that!


7 posted on 04/24/2008 7:41:24 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Defiant

Hard to type looking at that visual...lets sell off more grains to make alcohol to keep the global warming folks happy. Big Al was raking it in on earth day huh?


8 posted on 04/24/2008 7:41:57 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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To: Defiant

Loved the HALT on the back of the chair.


9 posted on 04/24/2008 7:42:00 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (Your choice if you take offense.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

This is good. Most of the people I see who are on welfare are morbidly obese which contributes to their health problems. If they would lose 50-100 lbs. they would look and feel better, they would be healthier, and they would not need so much Medicaid and Medicare.

Every cloud has a silver lining...


10 posted on 04/24/2008 7:42:32 PM PDT by 43north (I hope we are around long enough to become a layer in the rocks of the future.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Who wrote this Sh#t and what is it based on?

The only people I know that are sqwuaking are worried about other people that they’ve never met!

Call me an “Elitist”

Come on! It will be a first for me and you!

Election spin going WAY out of Control.

/don’t wanna pay 4 bucks a gallon... don’t vote for a Dhimmi


11 posted on 04/24/2008 7:42:59 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: Defiant

THAT. Is a Hugh Jazz. Uff-da.


12 posted on 04/24/2008 7:43:37 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: kiriath_jearim

How can this possibly be true??? With welfare, food stamps, reverse income tax, charities by the hundreds, and aid I have never even heard of how can this be? Are the illegals destroying us?


13 posted on 04/24/2008 7:43:37 PM PDT by SootyFoot2
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To: Defiant
Not.

Funny.

Mister.

I'm A Health Care Voter

Owl_Eagle

”You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in.  I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being”

-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)

14 posted on 04/24/2008 7:43:54 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: acapesket

oooooo-k.


15 posted on 04/24/2008 7:43:58 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (media is now a double-edged sword; it's no longer a billy-club in the hands of the big goons.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
The Congressional Budget Office forecast the number of Americans on food stamps would next year reach 28m, the highest number since the programme began more than 40 years ago.

Because the gubmint ADVERTISES, practically begging people to sign up for food stamps! I hear ads on Boston radio all the time.

16 posted on 04/24/2008 7:44:09 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: kiriath_jearim; All

I worked with homeless veterans and welfare moms during my 13 years with the workforce center. The welfare moms all had more material “things” than I did as a civil servant, and the homeless are invariably drug and/or alcohol abusers. Does anyone here personally know anyone who goes to bed hungry in the United States of America?!


17 posted on 04/24/2008 7:44:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary or Obama can!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Thanks to the same government who poisoned the ground water by adding MBTE to unleaded gasoline as a result of the 1990 Clean Air Act, we will now read these sad stories about hunger in the US, thanks to envio-nazis and their cohorts in Congress mandating the use of corn as ethanol fuel.
With friends like this, the Earth doesn’t need enemies. When is someone running for office going to be asked about these disastrous unintended consequences of their half-baked ideas? The msm needs to be blamed for always jumping on the bandwagon for these fiascoes as well.


18 posted on 04/24/2008 7:44:38 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Owl_Eagle

life has become a Far Side cartoon.


19 posted on 04/24/2008 7:45:10 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (media is now a double-edged sword; it's no longer a billy-club in the hands of the big goons.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
The cost of foodstuffs poor Americans tend to buy have risen more rapidly than those bought by their richer neighbours

Huh???

20 posted on 04/24/2008 7:46:15 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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